Duplex-ticket holder.



PATENTED JAN. 13, 1903.

H. T YLER. DUPLEX TICKET HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 27, 1902.

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UNiTnn STATES ATT FFICE.

HIRAM TYLER, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO JNO. F. OHMER, OF DAYTON, OHIO..

DUPLEX-TICKET HOLDER.

PECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No."718,590, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed February 27, 1902. fierial No. 95,950. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM TYLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Duplex-Ticket Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention comprises a duplex-ticket holder. The invention is designed for the use of conductors on railway-trains, collectors, and others issuing a cash-receipt.

The object of the invention is to provide a machine in which duplicates of the tickets issued to passengers are stored within the machinein a manner inaccessible to the conductor.

A further object of the invention is to arrange the tickets in such a manner that the ticket which is delivered to the passenger cannot be punched without punching the stored ticket. In other words, it will be borne in mind that the tickets which are delivered to the passengers are punched by the conductor, the said punch being on or near the station or destination which is printed upon the ticket. The operation of punching this ticket to be delivered to the passenger cannot be performed without also at the same time punching the ticket which is stored within the machine. It will therefore be seen that when the machineis turned over to the cashier or other officer of the road at the end of the days work there will be contained therein a complete record of every ticket that was punched and issued to passengers during the day.

In a detail description of my invention reference is made to the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my im- 7 proved duplex-ticket holder, the sides of the casing being removed. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the machine. tion of the same. line 00 a: of Fig. 3.

The casing consists of two cylindrical parts A and B, which are joined at their upper portions by parallel walls 0 and D, that form an inclosedi channel or guideway extending between and communicating with said cylindrical parts. These walls 0 and D are joined on one side by a wall E, which forms an inclosure for one side of the channel or guideway, and the said walls have corresponding openings (1 b c in them, the said openings being in line with each other. The other side of the casing, or that side opposite the side E of the parallel walls O and D, is provided with a door E, hinged at F and provided with a lock G, by means of which the said casing is securely locked. It will be understood that one side of the casing between the cylinders A and B is necessarily open in order that the punch may be placed in position to perforate the tickets, as shown in Fig. 4E. The door E has its upper edge terminated in an enlargement E, with grooves e e in the inner face thereof which receive the edges of the walls 0 and D when said door is closed, as shown in Fig.4. This offset or enlargement E corresponds with the wall E on the opposite side of the casing.

Upon the door or lid E is inscribed the number of the machine, the name of the railway in the service of which it is used, and any other data that may be desired. Within the cylindrical portion A is placed a continuous roll A, consisting of two ribbons of tickets H and H, which are Wound upon the arbor A, the outer strip or sheet of tickets H having printed thereon the various destinations to which the passengers are traveling and the amount of the fare paid 'by such passenger. The inner ribbon or strip H may or may not contain this printed information. In the present instance the inner ribbon is blank. These two ribbons are passed through the guide-channel between the walls 0 and D, and the inner ribbon is stored in the cylindrical portion B upon an arbor B. The outer ribbon H, or that upon which the printed Fig. 3 is a side eleva- Fig. 4 is a section on the matter is contained, is passed out of the machine through the guide-channel I, which channel is a continuation of the guide-channel leading from cylinder A. The ribbons are passed over feed-rollers J J J, which are mounted in semicylindrical offsets K K K, which are at the ingress and egress of the guide-channel. The tickets are fed forward from the roll A" by turning the arbor B of the storage-roll by means of a finger-wheel M. The respective rollers are suitably journaled in the sides of the casing. N is an ordinary conductors punch, which in the present instance has a suitably-elongated throat O in order to permit of it encompassing the walls 0 and D to punch any desired portion of the tickets through the openings at b c as they appear in Fig. 2.

ddesignates the holes or perforations which have been made in the stored ribbon H.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. In a ticket-issuing device, a compartment for holding a continuous roll of tickets, a compartment for holding a continuous roll of stored tickets, walls connecting said compartments and providing a guideway from one compartment to the other, openings in said walls through which the tickets are ex posed above and below, so that a punch may be placed in a position to encompass said walls and punch or perforate the tickets.

2. In a ticket-issuing device, a casing having two separate compartments, one for containing a continuous roll of tickets to be issued, and the other for containing a continuous roll of perforated or punched tickets which are duplicates of the tickets issued. parallel walls having openings therein and connecting said compartments at their upper portions and providing a guideway from one compartment to the other and through which the tickets are advanced from the issuingcompartment, the space below said walls and between the two compartments being open on one side in order that a punch may encompass said walls to perforate or punch the tickets through the openings in said walls, a door inclosing the other side of the casing, and means for advancing the tickets after they are punched or perforated, one to the storage-compartment and the other to a position to be issued from the machine.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HIRAM TYLER.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. KALBFUS, R. J. MCCARTY. 

